There is something wrong with our legal system---Part II. How does a man who has raped one person get out of prison EVER? Why do we permit these monsters to live? They can't be cured. If you haven't read my first posting of a similar crime, see it here.
I once dated a woman who I claim was a serial "breaker-upper". After the first break-up, it became easier for her with each subsequent break-up. Yeah, I know, I'm an ass for ever taking her back after the first break-up. When she became disenchanted with the relationship, she would boogie on down the road. As she became more comfortable with the break-up process, it got easier for her to do each time. She got so callous about it that there was no hesitation, no tears, no emotion or nervousness. As people get more comfortable with a repeated behavior (no matter how anti-social), it becomes easier to perform. How does this equate to rape?
Once you've experienced a certain behavior or experience, it becomes easier to repeat especially if you experienced success. Rapists are never once and done. I believe 99% of rapists are serial and many of them graduate to murder. So, why do we give them light sentences? Why do we ever allow them out into the public again? One thing that has been proven by repeat offenders, prison does not rehabilitate or deter anti-social or non-conforming behavior. Once a rapist; always a rapist. Or sometimes they become worse.
Case in point: Michael Lee Jones. I won't post a picture of this turd. He doesn't deserve to be humanized.
His crime line:
2003 - In May, it is believed he rapes his first victim in New Orleans after posing as a Good Samaritan and offering her a ride to her hotel. Instead he took her to a secluded area and raped her at knife point.
- In June, he applied the same ploy again and raped another woman in New Orleans.
2005 - He rapes a Colorado woman. He used the same Good Samaritan M.O. and took her to her apartment and raped her. Unfortunately, this woman died of natural causes in 2008 and wasn't much use to prosecuting Jones.
2006 - He rapes a woman in a Miami hotel. This one was the worse. He beats her nearly to death. He stuffs her body into a large suitcase and dumps her body in a vacant lot outside Miami. Miraculously, she survived. He was convicted not for rape but for sexual battery with a weapon and aggravated battery attributed to a hotel surveillance video and the undying pursuit of a P.I.. Jones was sentenced to two years in prison. Two years?? Whaaaaat??? They sentence drug dealers to longer sentences, as they should, but this was not even a slap on the wrist. In Florida's defense, they knew he did it but lacked the evidence to prove it. The victim had no memory of the incident. He, literally, had beaten her memories out of her head. Post conviction, his DNA is entered into the national databanks.
2009 - His reign of terror ends. He is convicted in Colorado of two counts of rape thanks to the crime preserved DNA that matched his in the databanks. He was sentenced to 24 years to life.
2014 - Based on one of the New Orleans victim's police sketch, a DNA match and the publicity from the Colorado and Florida convictions, New Orleans pursued Jones for their two rapes.
2015 - His DNA matches the victims' rapist's DNA. He was convicted and sentenced to 45 years for the rapes. All in total he should be serving a life sentence of 69 years. This bastard should never leave prison. At 41, he should die in prison. At 6'2" and weighing over 300 pounds, he probably won't last. Hopefully, a cardiac arrest is in his near future.
2031 - His first possible parole hearing to be scheduled. Let's hope he'll be dead before then.
This is one example of what typically happens in our justice system. Jones and other animals like him do not deserve to live. They are a plague, a blight on humanity. If Jones even lives 10, 20 or 30 years, the cost to keep this bastard alive could feed low and middle income families, who are more deserving, throughout those years. The cost of the wonder drugs that would put this dog down would give the victims and their families and society closure, like taking out the trash and forgetting about it forever after. Our government and court systems need to get tougher.
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